Delaware North Companies is a global leader in hospitality and food service with more than $2.2 billion in annual revenue and 50,000 associates serving 500 million guests each year. Among its many assets are several world-renowned resorts and Boston's TD Garden, widely acclaimed as one of the top three sports and entertainment venues in the United States.

Delaware North traces its beginnings to 1915 and Buffalo, N.Y., where its global headquarters remains to this day. It is one of the largest privately held companies in America with annual revenues exceeding $2 billion. Each year, more than 50,000 employees serve half a billion customers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

Jeremy M. Jacobs has guided Delaware North for four decades as chairman and CEO, taking the entrepreneurial company started by his father and uncles to heights they could never have imagined. Thanks to his leadership, Delaware North is one of the most successful and enduring privately held companies in the world.

Jeremy Jacobs lends his business acumen and vast industry experience to a number of other organizations, including the Boston Bruins, which he owns; and the National Hockey League, whose board of governors he chairs. In addition, Jeremy Jacobs is an inaugural member of the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, a committee whose job it is to help U.S. Secretary of Commerce Locke and President Obama with the United States’ travel and tourism policies and practices.

Jeremy M. Jacobs’ sons, Jerry Jacobs Jr., Louis Jacobs and Charlie Jacobs are company principals. Representing the third generation of Jacobses to stand at the helm of the hospitality and food service giant, they are integrally involved in devising Delaware North’s strategy for the future.